What architectural elements and traditions can you identify in these designs by Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani?

Let's get a globe and find Bolivia and the increasingly colorful city of El Alto, southwest of La Paz.

High on the Bolivian plateau in the city of El Alto, a new architectural phenomenon is becoming quite the rage.

In a city with mainly unpainted brick houses, many of them unfinished, architect Freddy Mamani's brightly colored ostentatious mansions are leaving a very colorful mark in the otherwise dull cityscape. They are dubbed cholets, a mixture of the word chalet (large house) and chola (indigenous woman).

"El Alto is characterized by its cold climate for its topography with mountains, it's dry. With the color we add more life to the streets of El Alto," says Mr Mamani, a local architect whose creations can now be seen not only in El Alto but across Bolivia and other South American countries like Peru and Brazil.

He has constructed 70 of these mansions in El Alto alone and continues to get more orders every day. Mr Mamani is inspired by indigenous Andean iconography.Not far away from El Alto, on the shores of the Lake Titicaca, lie the ruins of Tiwanaku, the capital of a pre-Incan civilization. The geometric patterns he incorporates into his buildings resemble those found in Tiwanaku's structures, he says.

It is a celebration of the traditional culture of the indigenous people of Bolivia.For a new class of rich Aymara indigenous people in El Alto, these mansions have become quite the status symbol. And they are willing to fork out anywhere between $150,000 to $300,000 for one of these glitzy buildings.

There are penthouses on the upper floors and space for shops on the ground floor.And the owners of these colorful mansions can rake in a tidy sum by renting out these spaces. Many from the Aymara community celebrate weddings in the new spaces.​Mr Mamani's work has inspired many copycats. On a drive with him around El Alto, he pointed some of these copies out to me. Some of these other architects and builders used to work for him, says Mamani. What separates his work from theirs?

According to Mr Mamani, a lot of works are similar but "they don't have a language, you could say. Mine for example, they have an essence that can be described, it has its own language, its own identity."